The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP (Essentials)
by David Powers
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Author: David PowersEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-26
ISBN: 1430216107
Number of pages: 1000
Publisher: friendsofED
Book Reviews of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP (Essentials)
Book Review: Wonderful book, ties the subjects together perfectly.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a totally awesome book, if you were to get only one book on Dreamweaver this should be it. I am a computer science student working on a double major of software engineering and web development, I 3 of David Powers most recent books, all of them are worth their weight in gold, when I saw this book I bought it immediately.
The reasons I like his books are:
1) They are totally on topic, he covers what he says he will
2) They are written in simple non-technobabble, his style of writing is simple to read and understand
3) He takes the time to cover what you need to know and stays on subject, no wandering mind issues
4) As far as I have seen, all of his code works, I have not covered all of his books from cover to cover, but as a comp sci student who reads butt loads of these type books and finds errors often, I can say these are some of the least error filled books, I own well over 200 books on programming, web development and all computer science subjects.
5) He has some really cool, really useful examples, all of which are the things you would encounter and need in the real world.
This book is cool because he shows you how to totally set up a local test environment with Apache, PHP, MySQL and Dreamweaver, and even how to create virtual hosts in apache(I have not found a book yet, other than books on apache,that tell you how to do it with pictures)the explanation of how to set up your testing environment makes the book worth owning alone.
This is not a beginners book, this is not going to hold your hand and teach you the subjects , it would be beneficial to have some HTML,CSS,Ajax, MySQL and PHP experience. What this does show you is how to incorporate all of these subjects and how to use Dreamweaver to do it effectively and efficiently. However you do not need to know anything about Dreamweaver, that is mainly what the book is about, if you know HTML, CSS and PHP, this book will show you how to create entire sites with Dreamweaver and those languages, that is what it is about, not teaching you anyone of those subjects, but how to use them in Dreamweaver.
As a computer science student I run into many people who should not be going into the field, who will not be successful, those same people tend to give these kind of books crappy review. It is their frustration in not understanding the subject, usually, I do have some crappy books though, and unfortunately one of my next classes uses one of the crappy books. It is full of errors, both in syntax of the language and the concepts of or lack of security. Davids books even cover security issues, they are really great books, this one is well worth whatever you buy it for.
Summary of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP (Essentials)
The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver is a new and updated edition of David Powers? previous book (the number 2 bestselling Dreamweaver book on Amazon), and covers all of the new features in the same style that was so successful in the previous edition. It features real world examples throughout, presented in an accessible, friendly tutorial style.
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